Princess Diana look-alike mom shoots her three little children point blank

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 22 April 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Diane Downs is convicted of shooting her three children in her car, driving them to the hospital, and claiming it was a carjacking gone horribly wrong. She, herself, had been shot in the arm, but investigators were suspicious of her story. Nancy's expert panel weighs in: Darryl Cohen, Atlanta criminal lawyer, former prosecutor Dr. Daniel Bober, forensic psychiatrist Vincent Hill, private investigator, author of "Playbook to a Murder" John Lemley, Crime Stories investigative reporter

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0:06.0	Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
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0:12.0	Very soon after Stephen and Diane's marriage in November of 1973, the two 18-year-olds found
0:19.3	themselves unhappy.
0:21.4	Stephen failed to be the sort of husband the new Mrs. Diane Downs had hoped for.
0:27.0	In addition to his roving eye, he told Diane that he wanted to wait a few years before
0:31.8	starting a family.
0:33.5	But Diane wouldn't have any of that.
0:36.2	According to Anne Rule in small sacrifices, Diane was determined to find another way
0:41.8	to attain the singular love and devotion that Stephen denied her.
0:46.7	Without telling Stephen, she easily became pregnant in 1974 at age 19 and was ecstatic.
0:55.6	During her pregnancy, Diane felt serene and complete.
0:59.7	She described her fetus as pure love, something that was an extension of herself.
1:05.9	And that happiness continued when Diane's first child, Christy Anne, was born.
1:12.0	Diane was truly happy.
1:14.2	But the more she loved Christy, the more she was repulsed by Stephen.
1:19.4	Diane were hearing from female criminal's podcast and they are analyzing a woman, a mother,
1:27.3	Diane Downs.
1:29.4	Diane Downs.
1:31.5	If you look at her, she's absolutely stunning.
1:35.7	She looks like Vera Fawcett in her heyday.
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